The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved

3. When they are saved from the Law; not only from the yoke and bondage of the Ceremonial Law, which the Jewish Church of old was under, which required many burdensome, expensive, and more carnal services, but also from the rigour, irritation, curse and malediction of the Moral Law. The Law is like the Egyptian Task-masters, who required Brick of the Israelites, but gave no Straw; it requireth duty, perfect obedience, but giveth no strength; it ⟨p. 33⟩discovereth sin, but giveth no power to overcome it; and it enjoineth service, but it giveth no ability to perform it; therefore the Law is said to be weak through sinful flesh, Rom. 8.3. Yea the Law when it breaketh in with a full spiritual light and conviction of sin upon the spirit, forbidding heart concupiscence, and the least motion or inclination of the soul to sin, and pressing to spiritual and heart-purity and obedience; it is so far from beating down and killing the power of sin, and from strengthening the soul, and enabling it unto obedience, that it doth revive the power of sin, which seemed to be dead before in the soul, and occasionally doth irritate and provoke to all manner of concupiscence; the discovering it awakens the enmity of the heart against it self, which lay before dormant. As the Apostle doth complain, Rom. 7.5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin which were by the Law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. And v. 7, 8. Sin taking occasion by the Law wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; for without the Law sin was dead, but when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I dyed. Moreover, the Law doth curse all the children of men that are within its power and reach, because of their sins, which none are wholly free from, Gal. 3.10. For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them. People are saved from the Law when they are delivered from the rigorous yoke of the Moral Law, which is called the Law of sin and death, as it occasioneth sin, and threateneth death for it; or discovereth our death and utter insufficiency of our selves to obey its injunctions;